Maria Ahmed investigates historic and contemporary forms of image and text, with a practice encompassing photography, books, prints and moving image. She lives and works in London.

INSTA @maria_a_ahmed

Selected activities:


Infinite Index, artist’s publication for mail art project Pushing the Envelope - 99g curated by Lucy Helton at the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park, 2025 

Epistemologies artist’s film screening as part of Garden of Humanities, curated by Lily Haapala and hosted by video art festival Turku Art House, Finland, at Kino Kilta, 2025 

Poetics of Error, group publication by Marie Molins (forthcoming)

Featured project, Philosophy and Photography Lab, 2024

Exhibitor, Inventory Art Book Fair, 2024

Exhibitor, Offprint London, Tate Modern, 2024

Exhibitor, Peckham 24 A Bigger Book Fair, 2024

Exhibitor, Format Print Market, QUAD Derby, 2024

Pecha Kucha, Ambika P3 gallery, 2023

Artist’s book workshop, Backbone Books, Berlin, 2023

Artist’s talk with Lucy Soutter and Sarah-Jane Field, Photofusion, 2023

Slips and Burns - solo exhibition, Photofusion, 2023
Curator: Katy Barron

TRACE Mentorship artist’s development scheme 2022-3

Format 22 Artist’s panel discussion with Ibby Azab, 2022

Format 22 multiplayer exhibition Kipya Ki? (What’s New?) 2022
Curators: Ibrahim Azab (UK) & Trevor Mukholi (Uganda)

Select 21 Artist’s talk with Katy Barron, Photofusion, 2022

Select 21 Photofusion, 2022

AARK Residency, Finland, 2022-2025

London Creative Network artist’s development scheme, 2021-2

Photofusion Salon, 2021

I Didn’t Lick it, Bruton Correspondence School, 2021

Source Graduate Photography Online, 2020

Awards:

Shortlisted Belfast Photofestival, 2022

Shortlisted FE+ Skinnerboox Book Award, 2022

Shortlisted Fiebre Dummy Award, 2022

Shortlisted Images Vevey Book Award, 2021

Photofusion Select Award, 2021

Photofusion Graduate Prize, 2020


Texts:

Slips and Burns, Caroline Molloy, 2023, Photomonitor

Mixed Memories, David Bate, 2023

Heaven Speed the Chameleon, Calum Beaney 2021, C4 Journal

Education:

MA Photography Arts, University of Westminster (Distinction)

PG Cert TLHE, Kingston University

BA Hons English, Wadham College, University of Oxford

Teaching:

Kingston School of Art, School of Creative and Cultural Industries 2010-current - 0.5 permanent senior lecturer teaching visual content production across Journalism and Publishing BA/MA. Felllow of the Higher Education Academy.

University of the Arts Bournemouth, 2024-25 - tutor, MA Photography Online.

Artist-in-residence, Kensington and Chelsea College, 2014. Artist’s video workshop and 1-1 tutorials with HND/BA top-up Fine Art students